Great Jen Sorensen CARTOON: "New Opiates of the Masses"

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And we could add: Runaway Bride stories, celebrity trials and scandals, Saddam in his undies, a small plane in DC...

(Cartoon found at Working For Change:
http://www.workingforchange.com/comic.cfm?itemid=19051)

http://workingforchange.speedera.net.nyud.net:8090/

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1. Americans Are Over Entertained And Under Educated

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2. They are numbed and desensitized to violence, cruelty and ugliness

What can shock them enough to rouse them to paying attention to what is going on? The 9/11 attacks did it - and I believe those were orchestrated by the Administration:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=125x39690
Thread title: David Ray Griffin evidence Bush admin complicit in 9/11 - update & links

So what will be the next big attention-getter?

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3. News is rarely news these days

The continuing saga of Gollywood,with a splash of fashion hype,soap opera stories and only a Casper Milquetoast version of news. Nothing heavy duty,true to life or violent even if true. We will take the G version of every war in town. Lets dress up the causes,polish those medals and show the happy parades and those town hall meetings where everyone falls over each other to catch a glimps of the great chimp master. :(

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4. The center of manure is the warmest softest place to be

That is why moderate political answers to a fascist government and business community will not work.

good cartoon.

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5. Great line - I am sooo stealing that! n/t

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6. Thanks

It just hit me on what the soft middle really was. After reading this post
Wanting a leftie president is why America hates Democrats

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=1798734&mesg_id=1798734


"I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me also remind you that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."

Barry Goldwater


Who had thought I would quote him.

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7. So true. He was a nut, but he would have hated what the neocons have done

to this country. They are the opposite of almost everything conservative Republicans used to stand for.

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8. kick n/t